Inv. Scu 809 The relief together with the other two panels walled in Shelf I of the staircase of the Palazzo dei Conservatori, it depicts an episode in the life of Emperor Marcus Aurelius. The work comes from the decoration…
Palazzo dei Conservatori
Fragment of an Attic funerary stele
Inv. Scu 989 The stele was reassembled from four pieces and has numerous missing parts that make it difficult to understand who the depicted personage is. It is a standing female figure, turned towards the right. She is wearing sandals…
Marble honorary statue of Pope Urban VIII Barberini
Inv. Scu 1201 In 1635, the Conservators commissioned Gian Lorenzo Bernini to make the large statue of Pope Urban VIII Barberini for a payment of 2000 scudi. The statue was completed in 1640. The sculpture was placed in the centre…
Head of a Boy: Gordiano III
Inv. Scu 995 This head, which is made of pentelic marble, is believed to represent a boy of thirteen or fourteen years old. Many scholars identify him as Gordian III: the boy’s facial features and long neck are recognizable from…
Relief with Hadrian entering Rome
Inv. Scu 810 The relief represents Hadrian entering Rome, greeted by the personification of the city, dressed as an Amazon. In the image, Hadrian, wearing a toga, enters Rome surrounded by his body guards: to his right there is a…
Statue of a man
Inv. Scu 1092 According to several scholars, the statue depicting a nude young man represents the spirit of death (Thanatos) holding an upside down torch in his right hand, while according to others the object was a plectrum for playing…
Mosaic
Inv. Antcom 4948 The mosaic represents Orestes, naked except for a cloak on his shoulder and with is back turned facing his sister Iphigenia dressed in priestly clothes and holding a statuette is in front of him. The scene depicts…
Male Bust
Inv. Scu 2024 The man’s torso is turned slightly to the left. The details of his hair and beard have been lightly incised into the marble. While little time was taken with his hair, the rest of his features were…
Relief with the triumph of Marcus Aurelius
Inv. Scu 808 The relief comes from the decoration of a triumphal arch erected in AD 176 in the Roman Forum at the foot of the Capitoline Hill to celebrate the Emperor Marcus Aurelius’s victories over the Germanic peoples and…
Statue of a young girl
Inv. Scu 1434 Smaller than life-size statue of a young girl, with a long robe (Doric peplos) that completely envelops her left arm. The right arm, instead, is missing. The work is sculpted in typical severan style (5th century BC).…